Military Rule and Population Issues in Nigeria

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Title:	Military Rule and Population Issues in Nigeria
Author:	Adepoju, Aderanti
Year:	1981
Periodical:	African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:	80
Issue:	318
Period:	January
Pages:	29-47
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	population policy military regimes Politics and Government Military, Defense and Arms Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/721429
Abstract:	Population matters have been, and still remain, thorny issues in the socio-political life of Nigerians. The present article focuses on population programmes during the thirteen years (1966-1979) of military rule in Nigeria. In doing so, the pre-military era is examined briefly in order to put population in historical perspective. The body of the article is devoted to the military era and covers such diverse areas as demographic data collection and utilisation; institutional framework for population programmes; the status of population, and the extent to which population has been integrated into the planning processes. The status of population in the new constitution is discussed as a necessary prelude to exploring the orientation of population programmes in the years ahead in Nigeria under the civilian administration. Notes, tab.